I'm replying to you, but really, this is for everyone who complains about no flash/popup/ad/whatever blocking in Safari, as well as lack of serious tab control.
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but you don't get this on a normal iPod because (1) there's far more songs to choose from and (2) because the iPod builds a playlist randomly when you set it to shuffle (this is the part I'm not completely sure about, but I've let mine play out for the four days or so worth of music I have, and it eventually gets to the end and stops playing, just as it does when playing from a playlist).
With the iPod Shuffle, there's fewer songs, and it's more likely that the user would want songs repeated, so it seems logical for it to choose the next song one at a time, rather than building a list. Thus, it appears to be playing certain songs more often.
Either way, just hit the "next" button if you don't want to listen to the current song.
I normally hate the people who post "this is news?' or "how is this 'stuff that matters'?", but damn, who the hell cares? The industry (including Slashdot, I guess) knows how sexy Apple is right now, and will find any excuse at all to put them in a story. This isn't news; it's flat-out guessing.
My mom ordered a Mac Mini as soon as they were announced, and when they came in, there was a bit of a mix-up over which Apple Store hers went to. For her trouble, they gave her a used Apple keyboard.
A few days ago, she spilled coffee on it, and some of the keys stopped working. I told her to run it through the dishwasher and let it dry for a day or two, which she did, and while most of the keys came back, not all did.
She called the Apple store, explained what happened, and asked if the Genius Bar could do anything.
The manager said, "it's really not worth waiting for them. Just bring it in and we'll swap it out for a new one."
As for my own experiences, I'll say that in the year and a half that I've been an Apple customer, they've never done anything but bend over backwards whenever I've had a problem.
I'll karma whore and help you out at the same time...
The article:
White House may make NSA the 'traffic cop' over U.S. computer networks
By Ted Bridis, The Associated Press Feb 14 2005 1:28PM
The Bush administration is considering making the National Security Agency -- famous for eavesdropping and code breaking -- its "traffic cop" for ambitious plans to share homeland security information across government computer networks, a senior NSA official says.
Such a decision would expand NSA's responsibility to help defend the complex network of data pipelines carrying warnings and other sensitive information. It would also require significantly more money for the ultra-secret spy agency.
The NSA's director for information assurance, Daniel G. Wolf, was expected to outline his agency's potential role during a speech Wednesday at the RSA technology conference in San Francisco. In an interview preceding his speech, Wolf told The Associated Press that computer networks at U.S. organizations are like medieval castles, each protected by different-size walls and moats.
As the U.S. government moves increasingly to share sensitive security information across agencies, weaknesses inside one department can become opportunities for outsiders to penetrate the entire system, Wolf warned. Attackers could steal sensitive information or deliberately spread false information.
"If someone isn't working on being a traffic cop, giving guidance on how secure they need to be, a risk that is taken by one castle is really shared by other castles," Wolf said. "Who's defining the standards? Who says how high the walls should be?"
The NSA already helps protect systems deemed vital to the nation's security, such as those involved in intelligence, cryptography and weapons. Wolf said the administration is considering whether to designate its fledgling information-sharing efforts also under the NSA's purview.
The White House Office of Management and Budget currently directs efforts by civilian agencies to secure their computer networks.
The NSA's information security programs are highly regarded among experts. "Bring it on. This clearly ought to be done," said Paul Kurtz, a former White House cybersecurity adviser and head of the Washington-based Cyber Security Industry Alliance, a trade group. "This will raise the bar across the federal government to a far more secure infrastructure."
Congress has directed the NSA and the Department of Homeland Security to study the architecture and policies of computers for sharing sensitive homeland security information.
In the latest blueprint for U.S. intelligence spending, lawmakers warned that attackers always search for weak links and that connecting distant systems "will further increase the vulnerability of networks that originally were developed to be susbstantially isolated from one another."
It's unclear how the NSA's efforts would affect private companies, which own and operate many of the electrical, water, banking and other systems vital to government. Wolf said the agency already works to secure such systems important to military installations, but he denied that NSA would have any new regulatory authority over private computers.
"When we talk about being the traffic cop, we're not in charge of these networks," Wolf said. "We're not running these networks."
It also was unclear how much the effort might cost.
"If you're going to have a network that everyone in government can get into, that means some agencies are going to have to come up to meet new, higher standards, and that's expensive," said James Lewis, director of technology policy at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a conservative think-tank.
After reading TFA, I'm a little confused. From what I gathered, they won't be "traffic cops" so much network guards slash data escorts. It seems to me that "traffic cops" is misleading, since it implies that they'll have some sort of authority over personal data as well.
Or perhaps I read it wrong, and they'll be setting up speed traps and beating ethnic people.
Because it's important that we limit, as much as is possible, our children's exposure to information, education, technology, or anything else that might shape them into better, more productive members of society.
I work at Agilent, and there's a definite air of HP buttsuckery around here. Everything is HP this and HP that. I'm hoping they buy us back just so people might STFU and GBTW.
On the other hand, our data center is buying more and more Sun boxes these days.
In case anyone is still reading, I talked to the Apple store where I bought my PB, and they agreed to swap it out, so long as I pay the restock fee. After the price adjustment between what I paid and the new price, the restock fee will only be about $70. Not bad for a faster CPU, more RAM, Bluetooth 2.0, faster SuperDrive, and bigger hard drive.
I just bought a 12" PB two weeks ago. According to my receipt, I'm two days over my return window. Anyone have experience with the Apple return policy? How likely are they to cut me a break?
Also, some folks are suggesting using PC3200 instead of PC2700. Somthing to do with the timing being slightly off. Naturally, because PC3200 is backwards-compatible, this will work just fine.
It may seem like a waste, but it's noot much more money, and the peace of mind is worth it.
Why not turn it over to the open-source community and let the experts take care of it? I'm sure they could provide a much better system than Verisign, more accountability, and much lower cost.
It's like the post-senate Empire; the regional governers (managers) have direct control over their systems (markets), and fear (of losing their jobs) will keep them in line (with current market trends).
(I propose a modification to Godwin's Law that the nerdier the people having the discussion, the more likely that Hitler and the Nazis will be overlooked in favor of a comparison to the Empire)
No, the record companies contract people to go and give monetary "incentives" to radio stations to get their picks put into heavier rotation (or into rotation at all). The station plays the song and calls it "hot", and the listeners, all eager to be hip and fresh and on the cutting edge of music, hear the word "hot" and jump all over it.
Or in some cases, people just hear the same song so many times that it becomes familiar and eventually enjoyable.
The point, though, is that you're given a multiple choice test when it comes to picking the music you like, and the record companies want to ensure as few choices as possible, and that whichever you pick belongs to them.
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I can't get behind that.
I'm replying to you, but really, this is for everyone who complains about no flash/popup/ad/whatever blocking in Safari, as well as lack of serious tab control.
Saft
PithHelmet
Yes, they cost money. Yes, they are worth it. No, I don't care if Firefox can do this for free.
No wireless. Less hardware than a Dell. Lame.
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but you don't get this on a normal iPod because (1) there's far more songs to choose from and (2) because the iPod builds a playlist randomly when you set it to shuffle (this is the part I'm not completely sure about, but I've let mine play out for the four days or so worth of music I have, and it eventually gets to the end and stops playing, just as it does when playing from a playlist).
With the iPod Shuffle, there's fewer songs, and it's more likely that the user would want songs repeated, so it seems logical for it to choose the next song one at a time, rather than building a list. Thus, it appears to be playing certain songs more often.
Either way, just hit the "next" button if you don't want to listen to the current song.
I normally hate the people who post "this is news?' or "how is this 'stuff that matters'?", but damn, who the hell cares? The industry (including Slashdot, I guess) knows how sexy Apple is right now, and will find any excuse at all to put them in a story. This isn't news; it's flat-out guessing.
My mom ordered a Mac Mini as soon as they were announced, and when they came in, there was a bit of a mix-up over which Apple Store hers went to. For her trouble, they gave her a used Apple keyboard.
A few days ago, she spilled coffee on it, and some of the keys stopped working. I told her to run it through the dishwasher and let it dry for a day or two, which she did, and while most of the keys came back, not all did.
She called the Apple store, explained what happened, and asked if the Genius Bar could do anything.
The manager said, "it's really not worth waiting for them. Just bring it in and we'll swap it out for a new one."
As for my own experiences, I'll say that in the year and a half that I've been an Apple customer, they've never done anything but bend over backwards whenever I've had a problem.
Face it, everyone who owns a Mac works for the Apple PR department. Their business is built on this.
"stealing laptops and other items out of the fridge at a local university"
Why were the laptops in the fridge?
I'll karma whore and help you out at the same time...
The article:
White House may make NSA the 'traffic cop' over U.S. computer networks
By Ted Bridis, The Associated Press Feb 14 2005 1:28PM
The Bush administration is considering making the National Security Agency -- famous for eavesdropping and code breaking -- its "traffic cop" for ambitious plans to share homeland security information across government computer networks, a senior NSA official says.
Such a decision would expand NSA's responsibility to help defend the complex network of data pipelines carrying warnings and other sensitive information. It would also require significantly more money for the ultra-secret spy agency.
The NSA's director for information assurance, Daniel G. Wolf, was expected to outline his agency's potential role during a speech Wednesday at the RSA technology conference in San Francisco. In an interview preceding his speech, Wolf told The Associated Press that computer networks at U.S. organizations are like medieval castles, each protected by different-size walls and moats.
As the U.S. government moves increasingly to share sensitive security information across agencies, weaknesses inside one department can become opportunities for outsiders to penetrate the entire system, Wolf warned. Attackers could steal sensitive information or deliberately spread false information.
"If someone isn't working on being a traffic cop, giving guidance on how secure they need to be, a risk that is taken by one castle is really shared by other castles," Wolf said. "Who's defining the standards? Who says how high the walls should be?"
The NSA already helps protect systems deemed vital to the nation's security, such as those involved in intelligence, cryptography and weapons. Wolf said the administration is considering whether to designate its fledgling information-sharing efforts also under the NSA's purview.
The White House Office of Management and Budget currently directs efforts by civilian agencies to secure their computer networks.
The NSA's information security programs are highly regarded among experts. "Bring it on. This clearly ought to be done," said Paul Kurtz, a former White House cybersecurity adviser and head of the Washington-based Cyber Security Industry Alliance, a trade group. "This will raise the bar across the federal government to a far more secure infrastructure."
Congress has directed the NSA and the Department of Homeland Security to study the architecture and policies of computers for sharing sensitive homeland security information.
In the latest blueprint for U.S. intelligence spending, lawmakers warned that attackers always search for weak links and that connecting distant systems "will further increase the vulnerability of networks that originally were developed to be susbstantially isolated from one another."
It's unclear how the NSA's efforts would affect private companies, which own and operate many of the electrical, water, banking and other systems vital to government. Wolf said the agency already works to secure such systems important to military installations, but he denied that NSA would have any new regulatory authority over private computers.
"When we talk about being the traffic cop, we're not in charge of these networks," Wolf said. "We're not running these networks."
It also was unclear how much the effort might cost.
"If you're going to have a network that everyone in government can get into, that means some agencies are going to have to come up to meet new, higher standards, and that's expensive," said James Lewis, director of technology policy at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a conservative think-tank.
After reading TFA, I'm a little confused. From what I gathered, they won't be "traffic cops" so much network guards slash data escorts. It seems to me that "traffic cops" is misleading, since it implies that they'll have some sort of authority over personal data as well.
Or perhaps I read it wrong, and they'll be setting up speed traps and beating ethnic people.
Prostitution and gambling are legal in Nevada. I can't help you with the other stuff, but maybe you want to consider moving.
Because it's important that we limit, as much as is possible, our children's exposure to information, education, technology, or anything else that might shape them into better, more productive members of society.
China: The Biggest Red State.
I work at Agilent, and there's a definite air of HP buttsuckery around here. Everything is HP this and HP that. I'm hoping they buy us back just so people might STFU and GBTW.
On the other hand, our data center is buying more and more Sun boxes these days.
Is SP2 anything resembling stable these days?
Also, I ate your clamcakes.
In case anyone is still reading, I talked to the Apple store where I bought my PB, and they agreed to swap it out, so long as I pay the restock fee. After the price adjustment between what I paid and the new price, the restock fee will only be about $70. Not bad for a faster CPU, more RAM, Bluetooth 2.0, faster SuperDrive, and bigger hard drive.
I heart Apple.
I just bought a 12" PB two weeks ago. According to my receipt, I'm two days over my return window. Anyone have experience with the Apple return policy? How likely are they to cut me a break?
Also, some folks are suggesting using PC3200 instead of PC2700. Somthing to do with the timing being slightly off. Naturally, because PC3200 is backwards-compatible, this will work just fine.
It may seem like a waste, but it's noot much more money, and the peace of mind is worth it.
Your code is sloppy, uncommented, and probably won't run. You should join the slash team.
Woah, what's with Taco's weird apology to Gates? Since when do we give a shit about his feelings? ...Unless that was the joke.
(Side note: Love the Mac in the background)
Why not turn it over to the open-source community and let the experts take care of it? I'm sure they could provide a much better system than Verisign, more accountability, and much lower cost.
Calm down, I'm kidding.
It's like the post-senate Empire; the regional governers (managers) have direct control over their systems (markets), and fear (of losing their jobs) will keep them in line (with current market trends).
(I propose a modification to Godwin's Law that the nerdier the people having the discussion, the more likely that Hitler and the Nazis will be overlooked in favor of a comparison to the Empire)
It still happens, only now they outsource payola to someone else to avoid breaking the law.
No, the record companies contract people to go and give monetary "incentives" to radio stations to get their picks put into heavier rotation (or into rotation at all). The station plays the song and calls it "hot", and the listeners, all eager to be hip and fresh and on the cutting edge of music, hear the word "hot" and jump all over it.
Or in some cases, people just hear the same song so many times that it becomes familiar and eventually enjoyable.
The point, though, is that you're given a multiple choice test when it comes to picking the music you like, and the record companies want to ensure as few choices as possible, and that whichever you pick belongs to them.
Remember the good old days when the listeners picked the hits?
Next up: bots that generate pop music.